Detective Keith Hunter was suspended for 25 days for neglecting to send rape kits for testing. It was at least the third investigation in the past two years that revealed issues in the understaffed unit.

The 2013 series Reinvestigating Rape, published on cleveland.com and in The Plain Dealer, is getting new attention through an HBO documentary film being shown at the Cleveland International Film Festival and later this month on the cable channel. The series,...